The Arts Count

by | Apr 26, 2024

In May 2018, the Arts Education Partnership published Music Matters. This was the first in a four-part series of special reports that used ArtsEdSearch to illustrate the many benefits of arts education. The Arts Counts series went on to publish Visual Arts Matters,...

Our Shared Future

by | Apr 26, 2024

On April 5-7, 2022, we hosted a virtual event in support of teaching artists across the country. Our Shared Future: Imagining a New Landscape for Teaching Artists featured sessions that dug into the current realities and hopeful futures of teaching artistry.
The Arts Educator Workforce

The Arts Educator Workforce

by | Apr 17, 2024 | General, Teacher Workforce

Addressing the arts educator workforce requires an acknowledgement of the multifaceted challenges that are tethered to it, such as turnover, accessibility and funding. This year, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) began collecting information on improving the...
What’s New in Arts Education Policy?

What’s New in Arts Education Policy?

by | Apr 3, 2024 | General

We hope the anticipation has subsided as this year’s updates to the ArtScan database have finally been released! ArtScan is a comparison of 13 arts education policy areas across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education Activity....
The ESSER III Deadline Explained

The ESSER III Deadline Explained

by | Feb 12, 2024 | General

Only a month into the new year, education decisionmakers are at a critical juncture with the looming 2024 deadline for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) III funds. These funds provided approximately $190 billion to states, districts and...

Arts Organization Profile Questionnaire

by | Dec 11, 2023

"*" indicates required fields CompanyThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.1. Art Organization Name*2. Website 3. Contact Name* First Last 4. Job Title or Role5. Email* 6.Organization Address Line 1 Line 2...
Challenges in Undergraduate Art Education

Challenges in Undergraduate Art Education

by | Oct 8, 2023 | General

The university environment creates a unique intersection of financial, social and academic stressors. Within our research, students identified specific personal and structural issues in their undergraduate experiences. These issues are often exacerbated within arts...
Has Arts Education Failed BIPOC Communities?

Has Arts Education Failed BIPOC Communities?

by | Aug 16, 2023 | General

In 2015, I took a job fresh out of grad school as the inaugural director of ASO Sympatico, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra’s El Sistema-inspired music education program. I anticipated being responsible for overseeing music educators, developing branding, building...
The Pursuit of Art and Higher Education

The Pursuit of Art and Higher Education

by | Aug 2, 2023 | General

Why don’t more students pursue art in higher education?   For many students, art is more of an outlet rather than profession, and in a world where student’s lives revolve around academics, art gets sidelined. For our research, I interviewed Liam, an international...

The Arts Count

by | Jun 15, 2023

In May 2018, the Arts Education Partnership published Music Matters. This was the first in a four-part series of special reports that used ArtsEdSearch to illustrate the many benefits of arts education. The Arts Counts series went on to publish Visual Arts Matters,...
What’s New to ArtScan in 2023?

What’s New to ArtScan in 2023?

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Policy

Spring has officially sprung, bringing warmer weather, fresh blooms and a new round of updates to the ArtScan database! AEP collaborates with the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education and Education Commission of the States to update this resource to equip...

Restorative Justice for the Arts Media

by | Feb 27, 2023

Restorative Justice for the Arts Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 20 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 16 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 15 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 13 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 12 Yorkdale...
What We Know About the Status of Arts Education

What We Know About the Status of Arts Education

by | Nov 29, 2022 | Policy

Jamie Kasper and Claus von Zastrow also recorded Talking About Arts Education Data, a corresponding podcast episode for the Arts ARE Education Talk It Up podcast. In May 2021, AEP published a post titled What We Know – and Don’t Know – About the Status of Arts...
What the NAEP Results Mean for Arts Education

What the NAEP Results Mean for Arts Education

by | Nov 23, 2022 | Policy

Since the release of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) results, countless articles and analyses have revealed the same troubling trend: reading and math scores declined at an alarming rate for fourth and eighth grade students in the 2021-22...
ARP ESSER Funds: What’s in it for Arts Ed?

ARP ESSER Funds: What’s in it for Arts Ed?

by | Nov 1, 2022 | General

In March 2021, a year into the global Covid-19 pandemic, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) was signed into law to provide relief aid to entities across the United States. As part of this aid, $122 billion dollars — established as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency...

Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

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Title: Fluent Nature | Artist: Melli Hoppe | Medium: Film

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When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

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My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

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Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

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La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

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Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

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Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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